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and with a pale red spot upon the middle of its back, occupying 

 the apex of the scutel, its antennae green, the second joint dusky 

 at its tip and the three last joints black. Length 0.55, width 

 0.34. Rare. Though so much like the preceding species this 

 pertains to a ditferent genus, being destitute of the sharp point at 

 the base of its abdomen between the hind pair of legs which may 

 be seen in that insect. 



101. Modest tree bug, Jirma modesta, Dallas. (Hemiptera. Pentato- 

 midse.) 



Tawny yellowish gray thickly dotted with brown punctures, 

 the wing covers commonly red at the apex of their leathery por- 

 tion, and with a brown spot at the tip of their glassy hyaline 

 ends, the under side whitish with a row of distant black dots 

 along the middle of the abdomen and another on each side. 

 Length 0.40 to 0.46. This is one of our most common tree bugs 

 and will be met with in autumn upon a number of different trees 

 and shrubs. It has the spine-like point on the base of the under 

 iude of the abdomen very short, and the angular projection on 

 each side of the thorax is not drawn out into a sharp point, by 

 which characters it is readily distinguished from another species 

 very similar to it, the spined tree bug. No. 26. 



102. SiN'GLE STRIPED TREE HOPPER, 71ieliaunivittata,'E[siTTis. (Homoptera. 



Membracidae.) 



A tree hopper shaped like a beech nut, with a perpendicular 

 protuberance on the fore part of its back, more high than wide, 

 its summit compressed and rounded, the insect of a chestnut 

 brown color, tawny white in front and with a white stripe along 

 the back, extending from the protuberance to the tip. Length 

 0.37, height 0.24. Often seen on grape vines in July and August. 



The Buffalo tree hopper. No. 22^ may also be noticed on 

 grape vines every day during the latter part of summer. 



103. Black backed tree hopper, j^cutalis dorsalis, Fitch. (Homoptera. 

 Membracidae.) 



A small triangular shining tree hopper with a smooth rounded 

 Dack, greenish white with a large black spot on its back, from the 

 anterior corners of which spot a line runs off towards each eye, 



